Canon PowerShot A2400 IS 16.0 MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom 28mm Wide-Angle Lens with 720p Full HD Video Recording and 2.7-Inch Touch Panel LCD (Black)

announced and released at the same time two of canon's new a series cameras the a2400is and the a4000is are extremely similar in both design and performance making them ideal choices for a head-to-head comparison both offer fairly limited performance in the grand scheme of things but the price is right especially for users who value portability as fire's performance is concerned the a2400 and the a4000 posted almost identical scores in all of our tests except noise reduction for some reason despite seemingly identical hardware shots captured with the a2400is are considerably noisier otherwise the most notable divergence is actually optical zoom the a4000 can manage 8x while the a2400 is limited to 5x the more ambitious lens does cost a 4 000 a bit of sharpness but not much rarely do handling and design represent the more important half of a value judgment but for the a series that's the